unbridled excitement

I've been waiting, holding space, for so long. I don't feel like I'm doing that any more. We are coming together. We have in our little community 3 witches of varying experience but experience nonetheless and 3 witches fresh from their books. It makes for interesting conversation. And we are doing well. This is good. We had a new moon ritual last night. Just three of us. (2 experienced witches and one new one). One witch was at witchcamp (Not me. Sob!), one was at a local amusement park at the *Pagan Day Out at Kennywood*, and one could not make childcare arrangements.
We did good. We set time limits on the things that get us in *trouble*, like talking. So we decided we would set and hour for chatting, then plan, then DO. And we did. It was lovely. We talked about everything from what happens when you set boundaries with boundary-less people (they get really pissed off), to what our concepts of diety are, how they have changed, and how we work with them. Plus, our jobs, our dreams, the gamut. Then we planned a simple ritual in which we wrote letters to ourselves that we hope to be in six months. A spell.
We had to explain about the phases of the moon to our new witch. I did say she was new. We didn't cover that in the teaching rituals.

Later, I opened a spell bag from an Iron Pentacle class from years ago. Very cool. Interestingly enough my allies and challenges haven't really changed. But I've learned a lot about them in the time since then. It was a lovely connection between old community and new.

See, our community has fallen apart a few times and become something different each time. But it was never stable since the first group fell apart. I think we are stable now. And we have in our midst some of those people with whom I had to set boundaries that they did not understand. They have come to understand a little better in the intervening time. I have had to repeat a few boundaries. But they are kept mostly. And sometimes just a look will suffice to be a reminder and I get an *opps, sorry.* So, live and learn. That's sorta the point isn't it?